Selen Seyven

Selen Seyven — Biography

Selen Seyven is an actress who has worked in television series and film since the mid-2000s. She began to be recognized for playing Pınar in Genco, and went on to play Yonca in Kocamın Ailesi and Heves in Avlu. In April 2026 she announced that she was giving up acting, sharing her views on the television series industry as she did so.

Born in Ankara, she is the daughter of an Uzbek mother and a Turkish father of Yugoslav immigrant background and the niece of director Ezel Akay. She finished the sports branch of Yahya Kemal Beyatlı High School and then studied theater at the Müjdat Gezen Art Center. She first appeared on screen in 2004 as Gözde in the series Büyük Buluşma, and continued with Aşka Sürgün and Hacivat Karagöz Neden Öldürüldü. Her first lead was in Aydın Sayman's film Janjan. After Genco she joined Osman Sınav's series Doludizgin Yıllar; in 2009 she played a disabled teenage girl in the film Abimm, and on its opening day her fans filled a cinema hall for her.

In the following years she took part in productions such as Acemi Müezzin, Kapalı Çarşı, Doktorlar, Leyla ile Mecnun, Avrupa Avrupa, Kocamın Ailesi, O Hayat Benim and Klavye Delikanlıları, and also acted in the 2017 film Baş Belası. She married in 2020 and became a mother in 2021.